Imus has been an institution in the North, and has been spewing his hate up there for 20 years. His racial smears are typical of the conversations in the North, the casual racism and sexism is the way most yanks think. Isn't it funny how *surprised* they are that people might be offended?

Walk around most of the cities in the North and you'll hear anti-Black slurs like "moulignon" and "moolie" on a daily basis. Of course, in "polite company" typical yank bigots prefer to use euphemisms like "bad area" to describe a Black neighborhood, or something barely concealed like "gangster".

Of course "officially" the North isn't segregated anymore, but in reality it is. Last time they tried to integrate the schools the yanks rioted and beat up schoolchildren and fought the police. Poor Black people in the North are basically restricted to "public housing projects" surrounded by barbed wire fences and going out into the White neighborhood might get you arrested or worse - Blacks can't walk into White neighborhoods in Boston or Brooklyn or Queens without getting beaten up. Forget Chicago - that's the birthplace of the modern KKK.

Then of course there are the racist cops - Blacks can't use a cell phone without getting riddled with bullets, kids can't go on the roof of their apartment buildings without being shot by police, and don't even TRY to go out for a Bachleor party with other Blacks - that's just asking for a shoot down. Nothing has really changed since the days the Whites burned Black schoolchildren to death cause they didn't want to free the slaves in the Civil War.

The North was literally built on the graves of the Natives they murdered and on the backs of Black slaves. The entire Northern Culture was based on racism and it's still based on racism. Don Imus? Why would anyone be surprised?

My husband's from Boston and he says they're way more racist up there than we are down here in Tennessee.

And, while I don't agree with your assessment that Gore is more liberal than Edwards (Edwards is pretty dang conservative and I LIKE Gore, a lot), I can still separate this one post out from your others. People don't think in linear fashion.

southern fried bigots with the automatic broad brush that unthinking intolerant idiots use, I suppose an equal time rant could be in order, but don't you give a tinker's damn about your own credibility?

Why would my credibility be damaged by posting the truth? Sure it's a little passionate but it's accurate - read the NY Post and there's a story every week about the cops shooting an unarmed Black man.

and never heard the words he mentioned above or the "n" word used until I moved out of that area.

If you lived in a suburb I could see the racism-many suburbs have problems no matter where you go. But I never heard those words used (and definitely not in a public place, yelled out for all to hear) until I left that area.

BTW-I don't accuse the South of anything around here either. I usually stick up for Southerners since my best friend is one. (And if your best friend is from the South you might as well be too, since you'll be considered a member of the family anywhere you go.) My arguments have always been that it's a select group of people who are racists. The loudmouths always make everyone else look bad.

And I heard the n word a lot. I hated it (and always spoke out when I heard it). Some of the suburbs might be worse but the racial tensions on the south side were really bad. I lived on the north side and it was much more progressive.

region were racists. We both know that it has nothing to do w/ the region and everything to do w/ how certain people were raised.

And North Side vs South Side-they are as different as night and day. Then again, it's that way in nearly every city-one area is completely different from another.

Just wanted to add his argument about schools-I'm a white female. Growing up I went to schools w/ large hispanic and black populations. (Different schools because my parents moved a few times in the same city.) I never had a problem and I didn't know anyone else who had a problem w/ different backgrounds going to the same school. The only reason why my parents later sent me to a Catholic school was because I got lost on the bus-didn't remember which bus to take and it took me across town. After that happened they borrowed the money to send me to the Catholic school a block away from our house. They never had a problem w/ anyone I went to school with-it was all about the distance I had to travel. My mother didn't drive so I had to take public transportation, since the school district said I didn't qualify for bussing.

Radio talk show host. Born John Donald Imus, on July 23, 1940, in Riverside, California,and raised in California and in Prescott, Arizona, with younger brother Fred, where hisfather owned a cattle ranch......

I'm originally from the north and I had never heard the "n" word until I moved a bit further down. (Now in Missouri.)

In Missouri the "n" word is handed out like Tic-Tacs; when I lived outside of Chicago(I grew up there) I didn't really hear things like that. I had no idea what the KKK was until I moved. I didn't understand why such a thing should even exist and I didn't know why some in places outside of Chi-town thought it was such a big deal that one of my aunts was married to a black man and another married to a hispanic. The worst I ever heard growing up were comments back and forth about the Irish and the Italians. (Now I knew what those comments meant, since I am Irish and one of my best friends is Italian.)

Most of the racism I've run into has been as I've driven further south and it's only been by a few. Most Southerns are not racists and neither are most Northerners.

According to your logic, I should hate the children of one of my closest friends, since their mother is white and their father is black and I am a Northerner. I should also hate a few of my cousins, since they are half-Hispanic. And one of those cousins married a black man so I should really despise her and their children.

Guess what? People like you are the reason why we still have race relation problems. People like you want to blame an entire group instead of isolating the one troublemaker.

was two Italian men yelling it at each other. I've always been told that it was a derogatory term about Italians. It took me a minute since I couldn't place the word as he was using it.

(And I grew up in a heavily Italian town. My hometown is just north of Chicago. And I just checked his dictionary definition of the word-that's not exactly how it's used by any means. It's derogatory but I've never once heard an Italian ever use the word against an African-American or even use it in reference to one.

I grew up around Italians and Sicilians and I've never once heard someone say it and have it mean the "n" word. When they said it the meaning was more along the lines of "f*cking idiot". )

We tend to associate racism with the South,but here in Mass it's just as bad,just under the surface (my own father used the term "raghead" the other day...this from a guy who votes Dem...go figure).In some ways it's more vile (if that's possible) because it's so casual like you say,and it gets dropped into conversations so offhanded it can almost be missed unless you're in tune to it.

I know some people are going to crucify you,but I see exactly what you're talking about.

Of course I have yet to go anywhere where I didn't find racists,sadly.If I find that place I'm moving there pronto.

When she was young she lived in Ohio, and met someone who was from Alabama and gay. She made a remark like "I guess you're happy to be up here instead of down their where it's so homophobic." He responded that it's worse - in Alabama you knew where you stood with someone, but in Ohio people would be polite to his face then make "fag jokes" about him behind his back.

My buddy worked with a guy who did that all the time,and a few months ago my friend finally had it and called him on it.So he got his foreman,a rather large and muscular black man,into the room and demanded the guy repeat the joke he had just told.Needless to say to the guy was chickenshit,and was very friendly to the foreman's face.

When my friend told the foreman the joke he thanked him for pointing out the man's thought process and shook his hand.Made my friend's week.

And don't even get me going on how many people in school were like that.

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